Availability of Victor Canning's books

There are now fourteen books by Victor Canning in print from the print-on-demand service of Lulu.com. They are:

Mr. Finchley discovers his England—£11.45	Two Men Fought (writing as Alan Gould)—£11.95
Mr. Finchley goes to Paris—£10.98	Sanctuary from the Dragon (as Alan Gould)—£11.46
Mr. Finchley takes the road—£11.95	The viaduct (as Alan Gould)—£12.49
Comedies and whimsies (short stories)—£9.95	Every Creature of God is Good (as Alan Gould)—£10.95
Crime and Detection; short stories—£11.45	Atlantic Company (as Alan Gould)—£9.95
Italy and the Balkans; short stories—£9.95	Mercy Lane (as Alan Gould)—£11.95
The Exotics; short stories	The Wooden Angel (as Julian Forest)—£10.95

A new collection of Victor Canning short stories which I have edited, including the superb 'Minerva Club' group, has now been released by the US publishers Crippen and Landru. Follow this link to the publishers' site. Other new editions of The Whip Hand and of Everyman's England are forthcoming.

A few of Canning's middle-period books are in print in large-print editions, intended mainly for libraries.

See also my own list of copies for sale.

The following is a tally of the number of copies of Victor Canning's books offered for sale by dealers on the ABE network on 15th May 2007/4 May 2008/11 May 2009/10 May 2010/29 May 2011. This will give an idea of the relative scarcity of different titles. The total returned by a search for "Victor Canning" was 4666/4623/4400/4263/4129 on those days, but that includes translations and a small number of other books written by joint authors whose names include "Victor" and "Canning". My informal checks suggest that dealers are adding around ten books of Canning a day to their listings, which implies that about ten a day on average are being sold since the total stays around the same. The totals for Castle Minerva, The Hidden Face, A Delivery of Furies, The Python Project, The Melting Man, the three Smiler books and the three books in the Crimson Chalice series are inflated as these books also appeared in omnibus editions and so include some double or triple counting. Totals for the three Mr. Finchley books include some copies of my modern reprints, which are in print. Listed for the first time are my two new collections of short stories, The Minerva Club and Comedies and Whimsies. For the most part these can be obtained far cheaper by buying directly from the publisher (see above).

(Where a book was sold under a different title in the USA, both figures are given. Otherwise British and American editions are amalgamated. I have generally excluded translations.)